On the afternoon of December 3, Los Angeles time, Yu Dong arrived at Los Angeles International Airport with the company's team.

Yu Dong was on the plane at 10 a.m. on the 3rd Beijing time, and arrived in Los Angeles at 22 p.m.

But due to the time difference, it's still 7 a.m. in Los Angeles at this time.

Zhou You, vice president of Hantang Media, and Liu Yan, general manager of Tangyan Studio, who were sent to the United States before, brought people to pick up the plane.

"Hello Yu Dong, I've worked hard all the way. ”

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu. ”

Yu Dong shook hands with them, "Please come and pick me up early in the morning." ”

"Yu Dong is polite, I'm tired all the way, why don't you go to the hotel to rest first, and fall into jet lag?" Zhou You suggested.

"Let's get down to business, I've already slept on the plane. Yu Dong shook his head, how could he have the heart to sleep now.

Zhou You nodded, "Then let's get in the car and talk." ”

Several people got into a business car and headed for the city of Los Angeles.

"Yu Dong, "Edge of Tomorrow" was officially released in North America in the early hours of this morning, but due to the time difference in various regions, there are early and late, and the box office statistics are also a little troublesome, at least until tomorrow morning. ”

Zhou You introduced the screening of this movie, "Colombia has won 1,600 open theaters, this data ranks eleventh among all new and old films in the same period, and the main opponents should be "Tangled", "Harry Potter 7", "Dangerous Times", "Dancers' Club", "Love and Elixir" These movies ......"

However, "Harry Potter 7" was released for half a month.

"Danger Speed" was released for 20 days and only had a box office of 60 million.

"Dancers Club" only got 20 million in 10 days after its release.

"Love and Elixir" got 16 million in 10 days after its release.

The biggest opponent is "Tangled", which got a box office of 75 million in 10 days, and was also the champion last weekend.

The only new film released at the same time is "Huangsha Samurai" by Relativity Pictures, director Lee Shengmao and actor Jang Dongjian are both South Koreans, and they have more than 200 movie theaters than us. ”

Although Yu Dong was not his leader, even when he was the vice president of Poly Culture, Poly Berner was only a subsidiary of Poly Huayi.

But now it's different from the past, not to mention Tang An's explanation, Berner is also one of the producers of "Edge of Tomorrow".

"What is the origin of this movie?"

Yu Dong frowned, a film with a director and actor who are all South Koreans is not released by several giants, and the opening scale is even larger than "Edge of Tomorrow".

"This Lee Sang-mao has a master's degree in drama and film from Dongguk University in South Korea, and a master's degree from New York University, which is the first film he directed. ”

Zhou You's tone was a little self-deprecating, a South Korean director without any directing experience, plus a South Korean actor who starred in a Hollywood movie for the first time, opened more movie theaters than "Edge of Tomorrow".

Anyway, Tang An has four movies that have been released in Hollywood before, which has also made the distributor earn a little.

Yu Dong also frowned, and he asked, "What about the specifications of this movie?"

"The cost of $42 million is a medium investment, but the producer of this film is Hollywood gold producer Barry Brown. M. Osborne, who participated in the production of "The Matrix", "The Lord of the Rings", and "Changing Face". ”

This is about the same, and Yu Dong is relieved.

Although he is a South Korean director and a South Korean actor, it is a Hollywood movie, almost reaching a medium cost, and it is still a Hollywood gold producer to participate, and it is normal to have 200 more theaters.

"Then it seems that Columbia still attaches great importance to our film. Yu Dong smiled.

"Columbia's film performance in the past few years has been good, more than ten movies have been released a year, but not in the past two years, this year there are only "Kung Fu Dream" and "Second-rate Police Detective", and next year there will be a "Green Hornet" starring Jay Chou, so it gave us good resources, and the location of these 1600 cinemas is also good, at least they are mainstream theaters. ”

Then Yu Dong learned about the publicity again, because the male and female protagonists are not famous in Hollywood, Tang An is a little better, so he focuses on publicity.

However, the main thing is to bring the movies "Shark Beach", "Horror Cruise", and "Shocking Demon Thieves", after all, the first two horror films are still sold on TV on demand and in the videotape market, plus the accumulation over the past few years, it is still a little popular.

But I don't know how useful it can be, after all, the audience of horror movies is completely different from science fiction films.

In addition, 3D is also the focus of publicity, Hollywood actually has no 3D movies at this time, and they are all 2D movies at the same time.

Huaguo's first hardcore sci-fi film can also arouse the curiosity of the Chinese audience, although they will not think so, but there will always be people who want to see what the sci-fi film made by the Chinese people looks like.

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At 4 p.m. local time on the 3rd, Yu Dong arrived at the headquarters of News Corporation, one of the world's largest media groups, in Delaware, USA.

Today, Yu Dong visited two fund companies and flew to New York.

However, basically no one is optimistic about the prospects of Bernard listing on the Nasdaq.

Even before December, shareholders such as Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, and Haina Fund all had the idea of selling some of their shares.

But fortunately, "Edge of Tomorrow" exceeded 100 million yuan in the mainland in two days, and the Southeast Asian market also sold well, which made them regain their confidence.

Yu Dong realized at this time that it was not so simple to land on the US stock market.

In the conference room of News Corporation, Yu Dong was received by Gao Qunyao, Global Vice President of News Corp. and CEO of Huaguo Strategy & Strategic Development.

"Lao Yu, you have come in vain, I mentioned this matter to Murdoch, but he basically has no intention of investing, he said that if Bernard is listed in China or even Xiangjiang, he is very willing to invest. Gao Qunyao said with some regret.

Although he is the vice president of news and media, the whole group is Murdoch's word, and if there is no interest, Murdoch will not invest.

Although he had expected this situation for a long time, Yu Dong was still a little disappointed.

He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Can I still back down at this time, if I really cancel the listing and return to China, I'm afraid there will be no good results." ”

"Now you can only look forward to the box office of Edge of Tomorrow in North America, or you have to be ready. Gao Qunyao comforted.

That's right!

There's still a chance!

Yu Dong also put away the expression on his face, as long as "Edge of Tomorrow" is successfully released in North America, there will naturally be countless Wall Street funds taking the initiative to come to the door!

Today you ignore my love, tomorrow I want you to be unattainable!

Yu Dong, who is less than 40 this year, still retains a trace of youthful momentum and impulse, otherwise he would not have directly entered the US stock market.

Back to Los Angeles in the evening, Yu Dong and Zhou You met again,

Sit in the 3D hall of one of the larger Cinemark studios in Los Angeles and watch "Edge of Tomorrow" and see how the audience reacts.

A glimpse of the whole leopard, the reaction of a movie theater audience can probably show the acceptance of the film by North American audiences.